BAPC CALENDAR of EVENTS FROM march 9, 2010 THROUGH MARCH 12, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

March 08, 2010 to March 12, 2010

THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR


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year by the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tufts University. 
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Monday, March 08, 2010

10:30 AM
Monday, March 8, 2010
Tufts University
High Energy Physics Seminar
Science & Technology Center, Room 134
“Measurement of Neutrino NC pi0 Cross Section with SciBooNE”
Morgan Wascko
Imperial College London


12:00 pm (noon)
Monday, March 8, 2010
Boston University
Special Biophysics Condensed Matter Seminar
Metcalf Science Center, Room 352
590 Commonwealth Ave.
"Water and Life: The Role of Energy"
Gerald H. Pollack
University of Washington
Pizza served at 11:45 AM


2:00 pm
Monday, March 8, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear and Particle Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"Direct photon production and precision jet physics at the LHC"
Matthew Schwartz
Harvard
Refreshments will be served


4:15 pm
Monday, March 8, 2010
Harvard University
Department of Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Laboratory, room-250
"Bottled Lightning: Modernizing the Electrical Grid"
Phillip Schewe
American Institute of Physics
Tea will be served in Jefferson 450 at 3:30 pm
<http://www.physics.harvard.edu/> http://www.physics.harvard.ed 
<http://www.physics.harvard.edu>

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Brandeis University String Theory Seminar
Abelson 333
TBA
Lance Dixon
SLAC


2:30 pm
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tufts University
Joint Tufts/CFA/MIT Cosmology Seminar
Robinson 250
"Primordial non-Gaussianities and Quasi-Single Field Inflation"
Xingang Chen
Cambridge
Refreshments served at 2:00pm in Knipp Library, Room 251


4;00 pm
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Brandeis University
Martin Weiner Lecture Series: Joint Physics/Chemistry Colloquium
Abelson 131
"Structure of trajectory space, broken symmetry and a glass transition"
David Chandler
University of California, Berkeley
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

2:00 pm
Wednesday, March 10, 2:00PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String/Gravity Theory Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics, Building 6c-442 Cosman seminar room
"TBA"
Martin Wijnholt, Harvard
Refreshments will be served


2:30 pm
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Theoretical Seminar: B&H 555
Physics Department
Brown University
“To be announced"
Dr. Henriette Elvang
U Michigan)


4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
UMass Lowell
Dept of Physics and Applied Physics 0H218
Refreshments served at 3:30 p.m.
Zoltan Fried Memorial Lecture
“Current status of laser micromachining”
Sergey Broude
Resonetics


4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Boston College
Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
“Localizing Light in Photonic Micro- and Nanostructures: Biosensing and 
BioInspired Engineering”
Prof. Frank Vollmer
The Rowland Institute at Harvard
Refreshments served at 3:30 pm, Higgins Hall 230
For more information please see: http://www.physics.bc.edu


4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Harvard University
Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC) Seminar
18 Hammond St, first floor conference room
NLO QCD Predictions for Vector Bosons Plus Jets at the LHC
Lance Dixon
SLAC

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

4:15 p.m.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The David and Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Building 10, Room 250
"Mechanics of Contractile Actomyosin Networks”
Margaret Gardel
University of Chicago
Refreshments @ 3:45PM in 4-349
http://web.mit.edu/physics/events/colloquia.html


5:00 pm
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Brandeis University
MRSEC Seminar
Abelson 333
"Paramagnetic Liquid Crystals without Metals"
Yoshiaki Uchida
Kyoto University

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Friday, March 12, 2010

e3:00 pm
March 12:00 pm
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Nelson Auditorium, Anderson Hall
“The Intersection of Physics, Public Policy and National Security”
Lisbeth Gronlund
Union of Concerned Scientists and Program on Science, Technology, and 
Society MIT
Refreshments served in Robinson 251 at 2:30 pm

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